The life of the mind (brought to you by rage and terror)
INTERVIEW
My friend—I’ll call him Adam—is very smart, very kind, and very self-aware. When you see him angry on his own behalf, you almost expect a voiceover from David Attenborough to roll, explaining how rare is this display of wrath in the North American mensch.
If you knew Adam, and if you had been present for an academic talk he gave a couple of years ago, you would not have been expecting him to be thrown into a (literal) blind rage during the Q&A. But he was. More… »